What is your weather today?

RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
89 at 8 this morning . 102 about 1:30 . About 2:30 the rain they promised Tuesday hit and just like that it was 86° at 3:15 .

It's cooler now with a little light rain than it's been overnight since the first of June . A balmy 72° .
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Funny day. Started out overcast and 69°, then a little shower came through and we had a rainbow in the west with the rising sun low over the hills. Then it cleared off with a light SW breeze that died and it got hot. Sittin' in the boat with sweat trickling down my face. Then a wind switch, a gentle zephyr from the Nw that quickly grew and dried the sweat. Felt wonderful but when the wind switched the fishing bite quit. Breeze freshened to about 12 to 15 mph. Temperature was 86°.
 
Tom

Tom

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90 here today. I can hardly wait for winter so I can quit complaining about the heat and start complaining about the cold!
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
:oops: I'm a day late and a dollar short. That was Wednesday's high. Only hit 104 degrees, yesterday. Today's prediction is for 103 degrees.
 
Rick

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Wednesday was 104 here. I use a kinder gentler guesser, 101 today. Cooling off a week from today and should only be 90..
 
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richhodg66

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It's been breaking 100 pretty much every day here for a while. Dry too, which I kind of like, we had three years of four inches of rain a day it seems. The plot I live on waas a rock quarry 60 years ago and has since reverted back to woods, but it is rolling and has a lot of places where water stands a while, mosquitoes were unreal. None now, just too hot to enjoy being outside much, and I am generally a hot weather guy.

My two duty stations before coming here were Fort Bliss and Fort Richardson. I'd never lived in the midwest before, but the first SUmmer we had a spell where it got hot even by El Paso standards and the following Winter, Milford Lake froze thick enough to walk all the way across. I love Kansas, I really do, but I could do with less of the extremes.
 
Matt_G

Matt_G

Curmudgeon in training
richhodg66 said:
My two duty stations before coming here were Fort Bliss and Fort Richardson.
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How long were you stationed at Fort Richardson?
I spent two years on Elmendorf, fall of '78 to the fall of '80.
I've wanted to go back to Alaska since the day I left...
 
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popper

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love Kansas, I really do, but I could do with less of the extremes.
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Raised there, no different than Texas. Well, except the SNOW. Knew a guy who ice-boated on Quivera, neat but I don't want to go that fast.
 
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richhodg66

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Matt_G said:
How long were you stationed at Fort Richardson?
I spent two years on Elmendorf, fall of '78 to the fall of '80.
I've wanted to go back to Alaska since the day I left...
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About a year and a half, tour got cut short when they deactivaded the 6th Infantry Division and closed down the DIVARTY. Ticked me off to say the least, I was a young captain waiting for a battery command and that got shot to hell. To make matters worse, I had to do my penance on a battalion staff like everybody else and was the S1, so with closing down a unit, an already haavy workload and thankless job got ten times worse. I didn't get out much, really didn't have a very good time and was glad to see it in my rear view mirror when I split.

It is a pretty cool place and I would probably like it a lot better now or even then under better circumstances, most of my gripes were work related. Wouldn't mind going to see it again sometime, but I have become rather averse to traveling since I retired in 2012, just like to be home now, too many years of being gone all the time do that to you.
 
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